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Oroville >> Letting go and sharing your story can be rough, but Shane Thomas learned through competing statewide in the Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year competition that sharing his story would grant him freedom to grow as an individual.
Youth of the Year is an international program through the Boys & Girls Club in which youth from the more than 4,000 clubs worldwide are selected to compete, starting regionally, then statewide and nationally, according to a press release. After his nomination from the Oroville Teen Center, Thomas was interviewed and chosen to represent Oroville against youth from Chico and Paradise. Throughout the competition, as he moved from region to state, Thomas said each step required loads of paperwork and speeches about his life and why the Boys & Girls Club mattered.
Thomas was raised in Oroville by his grandparents while his dad went to school in Phoenix and his mother wasn"t in his life. "It was my grandparents who took care of me and taught me right from wrong and to be the person that I am today, my values and the importance of my education," Thomas said. He said it wasn"t until he entered the sixth grade that his father gained custody and began to take care of him and his siblings. Despite his parents" absence for many years, "at first, I wasn"t too bothered by not being raised by either of my parents but mainly because I felt like my grandparents were my parents and took care of me. They made up for that."
For many years, Thomas would not talk about his childhood, but in recent months he"s had to repeatedly talk about it.
He said writing his speech was a decisive moment because he faced the reality he was going to talk about his personal life. "I don"t really talk to a lot of people about my family and stuff like that and then I find out I have to talk about my family in my speech, and I wanted to share my story and let people know that whatever background you have, the Boys & Girls Club helps you over come the obstacles you face."
Reservations aside, Thomas shared his story and was proud of the results. "Knowing that I was able to get up in front of an audience and present my life to them in a short amount of time was relieving to me, and people who had just heard it for the first time were inspired by it."
Thomas began going to the Boys & Girls Club when he began the eighth grade. Now 17 and a senior at Las Plumas High School, he has blossomed into a dedicated member.
"I wasn"t involved much before," he said. "I was just attending because it was a place to go … play games and different activities and have fun." However, once he began high school, he said he realized that the club offered more than after-school care, and he began to seek assistance with job and educational opportunities.
With help in the Oroville Teen Center of the Boys & Girls Club, Thomas applied for the College Connections program through which students are able to take college courses while in high school.
Lisa Spiegler, program coordinator, mentor and Thomas" counselor since he became a member, said she"s observed Thomas is the type of person who will continue to work hard and get the job right when everyone else has gone home. "I helped him when he was applying for College Connections. I knew before I was trying to help him that he was going to make it," she explained. "He has that quality about him."
Spiegler said when she first met Thomas he was shy and kept to himself. However, competing in an international competition changed all of that. She said Thomas is no longer hesitant to speak his mind. "Now, he"s very outgoing, speaking at events as a mentor to other kids."
Though Thomas didn"t win in the statewide Youth of the Year competition in May, he said he was supportive of the youth who did and he is prepared to try again next year.
Since the competition, Thomas was granted $3,000 toward his college education, and he"s currently taking classes at Chico State University through the connections program and will attend Butte College during his senior year of high school.
Thomas dreams of being an aeronautical engineer and studying at UCLA. After college, he said he would like to go into the Air Force unless he starts his own business or sells his plane designs. "My grandpa, uncle and dad all enlisted in the Air Force and them being in the Air Force encouraged me to want to work on planes."
In just months of transformation, Spiegler said she has seen him become a more confident person and embrace his own gifts and talents and pass that along to others. "He helps out at all of our leader and training events," she said "When members need help tutoring he shares his opportunities that he"s been given as Youth of the Year … and encourages students saying that they can do it."
Contact reporter Christiana Cobb at 896-7759.


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Paxton impresses, earns victory in MLB debut
Hours after learning of grandfather's death, rookie cruises past Rays
SEATTLE -- About 12 hours after learning his grandfather died in nearby Vancouver, British Columbia, left-hander James Paxton won his Major League debut with an impressive six-inning outing Saturday as the Mariners topped the Rays, 6-2, at Safeco Field.
Paxton, 24, held the Rays to two runs -- one earned -- on four hits with one walk and three strikeouts before being lifted after throwing 95 pitches. The 6-foot-4 Canadian pitched five scoreless frames before Evan Longoria hit a two-run home run in the sixth.
Paxton said he got a text Saturday morning from his dad with news of the passing of his grandfather, Lawrie Paxton, who had dealt with heart problems in the past. About 35 family members still made the two-hour drive south to Safeco Field to see the youngster's debut.
"That wasn't easy," Paxton said. "It's a very close family and he was kind of the glue. So it was great my family could make it down here tonight and watch me pitch. I know he was up there watching also."
Paxton pitched with impressive poise for a youngster making his first MLB start, let alone one dealing with the death of a grandfather who'd watched him pitch growing up.
"In baseball, you learn to compartmentalize," Paxton said. "I was obviously thinking of him before the game. I pointed to him up in the sky and knew he was up there watching and helping me out. It was just really special to get this one tonight for him."
Paxton is just the third Mariners pitcher to throw at least six innings while allowing one earned run or less in his MLB debut, joining Blake Beavan (2011) and Erik Hanson ('88).
Paxton kept the Rays off-balance with a fastball that clocked from 94-97 mph and an array of off-speed pitches. He was in the dirt a lot early with his curveball, but began working that effectively as well as the game progressed.
"He's got such a power curveball that sometimes he has to sort of get the gauge for it," said catcher Mike Zunino. "I'd rather have him miss down with that because you can't get hurt down there. He made an adjustment and was throwing it perfectly at the knees in the middle innings. He had a great start tonight."
The Rays couldn't get much going against the lanky lefty.
"He really wasn't deceptive. Because he's a long arm, he gives you a chance to see everything," designated hitter Delmon Young said after an 0-for-4 night. "Without seeing him, without being familiar with him, he did what he was supposed to do. He got ahead in the count and then he kept working down in the zone, established a strike zone below the knees and he stayed down there the whole night."
Paxton was a fourth-round Draft pick by the Mariners in 2010 after not signing with the Blue Jays following his first-round selection in '09. He is the Mariners' No. 6 rated prospect by MLB.com, but had an erratic season at Triple-A Tacoma, where he was 8-11 with a 4.45 ERA in 26 starts before his September promotion.
But Paxton's first start in the Majors went about as well as could be imagined, despite the expected nerves.
"Early on I was a little amped up, but I felt I got in a groove and was able to narrow my focus," Paxton said. "It was just another baseball game, just a nicer stadium."
Justin Smoak ripped his 16th home run of the season with an opposite-field solo shot leading off the second inning and Kendrys Morales added a solo blast of his own in the third off Rays rookie Chris Archer, who had allowed just 11 homers in his first 18 starts of the season.
It was Smoak's second home run in the past three games and Morales also continued emerging from a recent funk with a 3-for-4 night with two RBIs and now has 19 homers and a team-leading 74 RBIs.
Seattle won its second straight over Tampa Bay to improve to 65-77. The Rays are 77-64 on the season, but have won just three of their last 12 games as they struggle to hang on to the second Wild-Card berth in the American League playoff chase.
The Mariners manufactured a run in the first when Brad Miller reached on an error, moved to second on a bunt by Abraham Almonte, took third on a nubber in front of the plate by Kyle Seager and scored on a two-out single by Morales.
Then after Smoak and Morales went deep, the Mariners returned to small ball again in the fifth. After a leadoff double by Nick Franklin, Miller moved him to third with a sacrifice and Almonte dropped a perfect bunt single down the third-base line to score Franklin for a 4-0 lead.
After Longoria got the Rays on the board, Michael Saunders and Franklin responded with RBI doubles in the bottom of the sixth to make it 6-2.
Franklin got kneed in the back of the head by Smoak as both pursued a bloop single into shallow right field in the top of the sixth. The rookie second baseman stayed down for a minute, but remained in the game after being checked out by trainers and finished 2-for-4 with a pair of doubles.
"I told the little guy, don't stand on the tracks when the train is coming through," Smoak said with a laugh. "He was down for the count. I was just going for the ball there. I didn't think he'd even be there, with the righty up and they were shifted over. I should have caught the ball. But I'm just glad the little man is all right. Maybe it knocked some sense into him."

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DICTION produces reports about the texts it processes and also writes the results to numeric files for later statistical analysis. Output options include raw totals, standardized scores, word counts and percentages, thereby providing the user a variety of ways of understanding the text they have processed.
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{{note | If the digital TV standard is DVB-T2, it could have multiple transport streams on a single physical channel, using multiple Physical Layer Pipes (M-PLP).
{{note | If the digital TV standard is DVB-T2, it could have multiple transport streams on a single physical channel, using multiple Physical Layer Pipes (M-PLP). deep scan tool need to PLP , - it .
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===Cable TV Scan===
===Cable TV Scan===
Latest revision as of 02:06, 26 October 2017
In order to be able receive a particular signal a TV tuner, the device needs to know the the correct radio frequency and modulation parameters used by that source transmission. Therefore, you (or, at least, the viewing application you are using) will first want to know which frequencies are used for transmission and, thereby, may be tunable by your receiver at your residing location.
Note: Historically, the set of frequencies used under the older analogue systems have differed from one another, meaning that the particular frequencies used across North America, Europe, Asia, etc., etc., will differ depending upon the transmission standard adopted within each nation. When countries began to make the transition to digital TV systems, most have opted to continue to use their old channel frequency schemes so as to make the switch from analog to digital systems as seamless as possible for the end user.
- 1 Frequency Scanning Utilities
- 2 Digital TV Scan Technical Information
- 3 External Links
Frequency Scanning Utilities
Frequency scanning utilities, listed below, perform signal detection and, generally, provide a list of the frequencies upon which content is discovered, with which higher level applications can then in turn use for tuning purposes.
- scantv (part of xawtv package, both branches)
- apps with built in scanning ... tvtime, xawtv/motv (which call upon scantv), kdetv ...
On Digital TV, the scanning process consists on tuning into some physical channel/transponder frequencies and parsing the MPEG Transport Stream, in order to identify the services and the corresponding audio, video, teletext and data streams. The service is also known Virtual Channel.
There are two types of scanning applications: the ones that rely on frequency channel files and the ones that tries hard to identify the existing channels, based on the knowledge of the Country.
Scan apps based on a channel file
Those applications are faster to identify the channels, but they are unable to find any channel outside the channel table.
For them to work, an initial file is needed. Those files are provided at dtv-scan-tables repository, using dvbv5 file format.
Most common applications used for channel scan:
- LinuxTV dvbv5-scan, part of DVBv5_Tools package.
- alexplore (part of the v4 xawtv package).
- scan/"(dvb)scan", part of the unmantained LinuxTV dvb-apps.
- scan-s2 [1]
- "(dvb)scan", a utility included within the LinuxTV dvb-apps package.
- several apps also have their built in scanning ... kaffeine, MythTV, Me TV
Scan apps that don't require an initial channel file
Scan applications that don't need a channel file have internally a table that allows them to construct internally a table with possible frequencies and tuning parameters to seek. As the number of possible channels/tuning parameters are a way higher than the ones defined on a channel table, the scanning process will take several minutes (up to an hour, if the card doesn't support autodetection for some DVB properties).
Applications using this approach:
Comparison of DVB frequency scanning commandline utilities
The following table lists the main features of several of the popularly used command line scanners. For specific information on a particular utility's usage, have a look at its specific wiki article.
|feature \ scanner
|download (upstream version)
|last stable
|none / use latest version
|linuxtv.org unmaintained
DVB-S2 and DVB-T2 support missing
|linuxtv.org unmaintained
DVB-S2 and DVB-T2 support missing
|linuxtv.org maintained
|DVB API needs
|DVB API version 3.2 or higher
|DVB API version 3.2 or higher
|DVB API version 3.2 or higher
compiling needs DVB API version 5.0 or higher
|DVB API version 5.0 or higher
last update 02/2009
|DVB API version 3.2 or higher
|supported DTV types
|DVB-S, DVB-C (Annex A only - mainly Europe), DVB-T, ATSC (VSB and QAM)
|DVB-S, DVB-C (Annex A only - mainly Europe), DVB-T, ATSC (VSB and QAM)
|DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C (Annex A only - mainly Europe), DVB-T, DVB/T2, ATSC (VSB and QAM), DMB-TH (China)
|DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C (Annex A only - mainly Europe), DVB-T, ATSC (VSB and QAM)
|DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C (Annex A and C - worldwide), DVB-T, DVB-T2, ATSC (VSB and QAM), ISDB-T and more
|initial scan file required
(matching to your satellite or local aerial/cable network)
|not required
NOTE: slightly different file format from scan because of additional DVB-S2 support.
|yes (uses libdvbv5 file format by default, but dvb-apps and s2-scan file formats are accepted too)
|can generate initial scan file
|can generate channels.conf for zap/xine/mplayer/vlc
|yes (default)
|yes (default)
|can generate channels.conf for VDR
|yes, but hopeless outdated (vdr-1.3 only)
|yes, but hopeless outdated (vdr-1.3 only)
|yes (default)
|yes (default)
|yes (after version 1.4.0)
|can generate channels.dvb for kaffeine
Digital TV Scan Technical Information
There are two types of TV channel scanning tool: the ones that relies on a separate per-country/per-city channel file, and the ones that do deep scan.
This section describes how deep channel scan works.
Terrestrial TV Scan
For terrestrial standards, the channel frequency parameters are regulated, per Country. Channels usually use a bandwidth of 5MHz, 6MHz, 7MHz or 8MHz (although DVB-T2 also permits 1.7 MHz and 10 MHz). They're also usually spaced with the same bandwidth. This is also true for DVB-C Annex B, used in US.
In Europe, most Countries use 6MHz for VHF channels and 8MHz for UHF channels. On US, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Japan, South Korea, 6MHz is used for all channels.
So, all a deep channel scan tool needs to know, for each frequency range, is:
- The frequency of the first channel;
- The frequency of the last channel;
- The bandwidth of each channel;
So, for example, Kaffeine's "Auto normal" deep scan, used on most western European Countries, has two ranges:
|Initial frequency
|Final frequency
|Channel bandwidth
|177500000 Hz
|226500000 Hz
|7000000 Hz
|474000000 Hz
|858000000 Hz
|8000000 Hz
And "Auto Australia" deep scan, used in Australia, has a different UHF range:
|Initial frequency
|Final frequency
|Channel bandwidth
|177500000 Hz
|226500000 Hz
|7000000 Hz
|529500000 Hz
|816500000 Hz
|7000000 Hz
Cable TV Scan
All cable and satellite standards, except for DVB-C Annex B and ISDB-S, use a variable channel bandwidth, with is indirectly adjusted from the symbol rate. The bandwidth is given by:
bandwidth = symbol_rate / rolloff factor
Where the rolloff depends on the filter parameters of the demod. It is standardized, though:
|TV Standard
|Rolloff factor
|DVB-S, DVB-S turbo and ISDB-S
|it can be selected between 1.20, 1.25 and 1.35
|DVB-C Annex A
|used by most countries
|DVB-C Annex C
|used mainly in Japan
Most cable TV providers keep spacing the channels using a multiple of 6MHz, 7MHz or 8MHz, with usually matches the terrestrial TV channel frequency table.
However, the symbol rate is not standardized. So, a scanning tool should set a symbol rate, in bauds, with is actually used to setup the bandpass filters. If the symbol rate doesn't approximately match, the decoder won't detect the channel. Also, while you could hint a symbol rate based on the channel space, This is not standard: each cable operator can use whatever they want.
So, for example, if the channel spacing is 8MHz, a DVB-C Annex A channel may use up to 6956.5 KBauds
8 MHz / 1.15 = 6956.5 KBauds
Most cable companies, in practice, rounds it to 6900 kBauds. However, the cable operator can opt to use a smaller value, like 6875 kBauds in order to add some guard between channels, or use the right value (6956.5 kBauds).
So, a deep scanning tool has a list of the most common symbol rates it uses to test. It starts scanning with the most likely one (e. g. symbol_rate / rolloff). If it doesn't find anything, it tries other valid symbol rates for the channel bandwidth.
Currently, the dtv-scan-tables dvb-c channel tables use the following symbol rates:
|Number of occurrences
|Symbol rate
|DVB-C Annex A bandwidth
|DVB-C Annex C bandwidth
|6900000 bauds
|7.9 MHz
|7.8 MHz
|6875000 bauds
|7.9 MHz
|7.8 MHz
|6950000 bauds
|8 MHz
|7.9 MHz
|7000000 bauds
|8.1 MHz
|7.9 MHz
|3450000 bauds
|4.0 MHz
|3.9 MHz
|6111000 bauds
|7 MHz
|6.9 MHz
|6428000 bauds
|7.4 MHz
|7.3 MHz
|6952000 bauds
|8 MHz
|7.9 MHz
|5217000 bauds
|5.9 MHz
|5000000 bauds
|5.8 MHz
|5.7 MHz
The good news, is that, usually getting just one channel is enough to get the full channels for cable, as the NIT tables typically contains the full range of channels there.
Satellite Scan
Satellite scan is even harder than cable TV, as the transponder frequencies are not standardized. Also, it should check both vertical and horizontal polarization.
A deep satellite scan should use the frequency range from the LNBf and tries several symbol rates, assuming some transponder spacing.
The good news, is that, usually getting just one channel is enough to get the full channels for cable, as the NIT tables typically contains the full range of channels there. Yet, on several satellites, in order to get all transponders, the scan program need to check for the other NIT tables.
External Links
Digital For some other general sources (which may or may not be that useful) for finding local channel frequency lists, see:


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Melville Stone was a publisher of the Chicago Daily News during the 1870's. In his memoir, he related the following anecdote of a hoax pulled by the Chicago Daily News against its competitor.
The staff at the Daily News had a feeling that the Chicago Post and Mail, which was run by the McMullen brothers, was plagiarizing their news and scoops. To test their theory, the Daily News published a news about a famine in Serbia, wherein the mayor of Balgrade apparently said in Serbian, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht.", which translates, "The municipality cannot aid."
As they anticipated, the afternoon edition of the Post and Mail also published the same story together with the Serbian quote. Stone immediately went to all the other Chicago papers to tell them about the hoax. He revealed that the quote was fake, and if you read it backward, it would read, "The McMullens will steal this sure."
Stone remarked that after the revelation, the Post and Mail was highly lampooned by the other Chicago papers, and it never recovered from the humiliation. Around two years later, Post and Mail was acquired by the Daily News for a very small amount of money.


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Featuring seven vignettes, Westfield High presents its 2007 "Ho-Ho Holiday Shows," this Friday, Dec. 21, at 10 a.m. and noon; tickets are $4 at the door. The shows are:
* 'Twas the Night: Student directors are Ben Reese and Lindsay Thomas. "Three people will narrate the story, there'll be a lot of actors and dancers, and it's set to the music of the Trans Siberian Orchestra," said Reese. "The kids start dreaming and go into the world of the Sugarplum Fairies, and then there's dancing and a guitar battle — almost a swordfight with guitars."
* A Hanukkah Story: Directed by seniors Sarah Cowdery and Allison Wruk, it's about the first Hanukkah. "Not only is the play funny and exciting, but it also teaches a lot of history," said Wruk. "It tells of the Macabees' rebellion and how their oil burns for eight nights. We show a family at dinner and the grandfather tells the story."
* Charlie Brown: Seniors Mariam Haider and Lee Doubleday are directing. Doubleday said Charlie's "trying to bring back Christmas the way it's supposed to be, and not commercialized. He gets a scrawny, real Christmas tree, instead of a pink, metal one, and everyone gets mad at him."
But Linus eventually explains the true meaning of Christmas and everyone's happy.
* Frosty the Snowman: Directing are students Mandy Bains and Joyce Kim. "Professor Hinkle has a magic hat that brings Frosty to life, and the kids find it and put it on Frosty," said Kim. "But a magician wants it because of its magic and tries to get it from Frosty. So the kids try to take Frosty to the North Pole."
* Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins: Seniors Jonathan Goldsmith and Neil Gunn are directing. It's a Jewish, bedtime story teaching children about Hanukkah, and the students converted it to a play. "Hershel comes to a town where they don't celebrate Hanukkah because the Goblins forbid it," explained Gunn. "They put a curse on the town, and the only way to break it is for Hershel to spend eight nights in an old synagogue on a hill."
* Rudy the Red-Nosed Reindeer: It's directed by Kyla Waitt and Jade Jones, and Waitt describes it as "the basic Rudolph story, but a little more modern, with hip dialogue. For example, the reindeer will tell Rudolph, 'You can't play video games.' And the costumes will be spray-painted T-shirts for the reindeer, instead of just being brown and plain."
* The Grinch: Directing are seniors Nick Cirillo and Cate Lightburn. "We'll have narrators read the book, and in between their lines from the story will be lines from the movie with Jim Carrey," said Cirillo. "Everybody loves the movie Grinch, and you don't see that Grinch in many children's shows."


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Upon review of these authorities and the language of the pertinent provisions of the Labor Code, the Court finds that California law does not allow an employer to "build in" time for non-driving tasks into a piece-rate compensation system. Although Armenta is factually distinguishable from this case in that it considered a payment system based only on hours, the Court finds that it is nonetheless applicable, and stands for the proposition that employees must be directly compensated for all time worked. n20 The well-reasoned opinions of both the Ontiveros and Cardenas courts further support this interpretation. This interpretation is also supported by the DLSE opinion letter, which expressly precludes the possibility of allowing time to go uncompensated when employees cannot earn piece-rate compensation for a given task.See Quezada, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98639, at 18-19.
On July 15, 2012, Eastern District Magistrate Judge, Dennis L. Beck, entered an order in Clayton v. Knight Transp., Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98459 (E.D. Cal. July 15, 2012), recommending certification of labor code claims brought on behalf of a class of individuals who failed to receive minimum wage compensation for approximately 19 hours of time spent in standardized new hire "orientation" classes. The defendant's effort to defeat certification by injecting a dispute as to its status as an "employer" was deemed incapable of undermining the element of predominance, as the facts underpinning plaintiff's theory of liability and the issue of defendant's status as an "employer" both turned on the issue of "control", which the Court concluded could be established based on identical evidence common to the class as a whole:
The parties argue extensively about which test the Court should ultimately apply to determine whether those who attended orientation are employees. The Court need not decide the test at this point, however. Regardless of the test used, individual issues do not predominate. Defendant would have this Court believe that employment status cannot be determined on a non-individualized basis, but for the reasons discussed above, common questions of law and fact predominate. In other words, for attendees attending classroom orientation, employment status can be determined on a group-wide basis because the relevant facts are the same for the group. Defendant exerted control over the times and places of orientation and the daily schedule, and the time spent at orientation was generally consistent. n3 Similarly, assuming attendees are employees, the consistency in time spent at orientation will allow for determination of whether the employees would be entitled to minimum wage. See eg., Ortega v. J.B. Hunt Transport, 258 F.R.D. 361 (C.D. Cal. 2009).See Clayton, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98459, at 17-18.


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Tea Party Senators Right When It Comes To Obamacare Strategy
Vitriol has gone beyond partisan give-and-take in the nation's politics. It is now seeping into and poisoning the ranks of the Republican Party.
Mainstream Republican politicians are cringing at the proposal of tea party Senators – Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL) – that upcoming legislation to appropriate funds for operation of the federal government be held hostage on condition that Obamacare funding is withheld.
Republicans opposing this strategy see it as lose-lose. They don't believe this tactic can de-fund or deliver a deathblow to Obamacare. And at the same time, they see it producing more antipathy toward Republicans and branding them as zealots and obstructionists.
I think the tea partiers are on the right track and I think the "mainstream" opposition is missing key, important points.
Republicans should be thinking about two objectives.
First, fight public resignation that Obamacare will become an inevitable part of our national landscape and continue building public understanding how bad and dangerous this law is for our health care and our economy.
Second, continue the ongoing work to build public awareness that Republicans are not the party of "no" but the party of "yes", to a conservative agenda which is really the only viable path to national recovery.
On the first point, the tea party strategy is already working.
If Republicans sit politely on the sidelines and allow business as usual to continue in Washington, the American public can only conclude that everything is basically okay.
But everything is not basically okay.
We don't even have to look to Republicans to show what a disaster Obamacare is.
It is the Obama administration itself that initiated a one-year delay in implementing one of the most central features of the law – the mandate on employers to provide government-defined health insurance. No clearer statement could be made of the unworkability of this bureaucratic nightmare.
Now Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former governor of Vermont and Democratic presidential contender – and a physician himself – now calls for scrapping another central feature of Obamacare - the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
This is the unelected committee of 15 Washington bureaucrats who will play the central role of pricing medical services under Medicare.
Pricing of medical services by bureaucrats is the pure socialism of Obamacare that those opposed to the law said from day one would not work. Now Howard Dean confirms this.
On the second point, Republicans must wake up to the public relations battle they have lost over recent years. Radical left wing Democrats have been accepted in the public eye as moderate and reasonable and conservative Republicans are portrayed as the nutty extremists.
When President Obama took office, the nation was headed toward the bottom of a terrible recession.
His priority then should have been economic recovery.
It was not. He used the honeymoon of his first year in office to enact his socialist dream of government health care.
Obamacare was passed in March 2010 through legislative sleight of hand and without a single Republican vote.
It brings socialism to almost one fifth of the American economy. Its core features are regulation and the government printing press. Where is the money going to come from to pay for all the subsidized purchases of government insurance? Where is the money going to come from to pay for the 20 million or so dumped into Medicaid on top of the 60 million already there?
And somehow those who brought us this nightmare are the moderates?
No, the tea partiers are right. We are at war. The future of our country is at stake.
The Republican Party priority must be to wake up America to what faces us, show who the real radicals are, and that the only way out of this mess is restoration of personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, and a functioning free market.


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We founded Gloria Jean's Coffees in Australia more than fifteen years ago with the ambition to serve the best coffee in the country. We currently have more than 400 coffee houses, presence in every Australian state and territory – and there is room for more!
Nabi Saleh, an Australian businessman, coffee lover and expert, together with his business partner, Peter Irvine, set their sights on bringing specialty gourmet coffee, Gloria Jean's Coffees, to Australia.
In 1996 the first Australian Gloria Jean's Coffees store was opened in Miranda, Sydney.
By 2004 Gloria Jean's Coffees had opened more than 200 coffee houses across Australia and become a national brand with coffee houses present in every Australian state and territory. With success accomplished at home, Nabi and Peter set about achieving their vision to make Gloria Jean's Coffees a successful global brand.
Setting off to bring their specialty coffee to the world, Nabi and Peter returned to the USA in 2004, to purchase the international branding and roasting rights for all countries outside of America and Puerto Rico, and in doing so setting up Gloria Jean's Coffees International Pty Ltd.
Five years on, in early 2009, the global story was completed when Gloria Jean's Coffees International Pty Ltd. finalised negotiations to buy Gloria Jean's Coffees U.S. retail and franchise operations from the then U.S. owner.
Today, with coffee houses in 39 markets around the world, much has changed within our business except one thing: our passion for excellent coffee, our dedication to doing business with heart, and our unwavering ambition to be the most loved and respected coffee company in the world.
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This summer was filled to the brim with trips and food and sun and sand and music and rainbows and more food. Which is why I have a lot of catching up to do (again). This week, I will be recapping the end of my summer fun.
Three weekends ago, (OMG has it been that long!) over Labor Day weekend, I went on a short trip to New York to visit the fam. There was a 3-day long reunion that included four generations of family! (Like, whoa!) It also included sand in my toes, beautiful sunsets, pizza, pasta, goat meat (from the farm, upstate) and more sand.
The week after I returned included this incredible (double) rainbow. I was so in awe with it, I took about a billion pictures of it. As soon as the rainbow/sunset had faded, I moved inside to watch a few awesome people play amazing music.
I know it is random, but I just had to share: I pass this mailbox on the way to work sometimes and it makes me laugh, thinking about the amped up mail inside.
Lastly, the boyfriend's cousin and friends were in town and we all hung out in the Mission, eating tacos, of course.
And, yes, there was a Rosh Hashanah dinner that I went to this weekend, and there are pictures from that, but, well, I figured I should save those for next week. 🙂 So enjoy the week and stay tuned!


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"true to their name, Giants make majestic and uplifting music..." — The Big Takeover
"Giants not only tell you their story, but they do it in a way that invades your chest and removes everything you thought you possessed..." — Sputnik Music
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"In the waning summer months of 2005 four midwesterners coming out of high school decided to get together and write some songs with the intention of adding vocals later. Heath Hospodarsky, James Lyle, Dave Livingston, and Brad Highnam wrote these four tracks and then the following November went into CB Studios in Cedar Falls, IA and recorded them with Christian M. Brown. After hearing what they had created, the band decided to altogether nix the idea of vocals being adding and simply keep the songs instrumental…"Giants" was born. Back then, with instrumental music not nearly as popular as it is today, the band was onto a new and fresh sound that was triumphant and hopeful, almost anthemic in its feel. The band hand burned 300 CD-R's of the album and sold out of them after just their first two shows in the area. This was the end of the self titled EP's life… until now. Fast forward 5 years into the future, to the final months of 2010. After several discussions with their record label, The Mylene Sheath, the band went back into the studio and rerecorded the EP once again for an "official" release. At the helm once again was Christian M. Brown, but this time the studio was Grand Junction Studio in Waterloo, IA. The results? A hi-fi trip down memory lane for those who were there the first time around, as well as a great introduction to those completely unfamiliar with the material. The rerecorded EP is now available on iTunes and all other DSP's, but will be officially released as a limited edition vinyl 7" on June 14th, 2011 to celebrate the bands first four recorded songs on the eve of their 6th anniversary as a band. With two full lengths, an EP, and a split 7" with Mylene Sheath labelmates Beware of Safety under their belt, the band are currently supporting bands such as The Appleseed Cast on select dates as well as writing their third full length for release on The Mylene Sheath in early 2013. So with busy times ahead for the band, it's truly a unique experience to hear the four songs that started everything, and see them get the official release they never had in 2005."


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LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- The Bonneville Power Administration has selected a preferred route for a 79-mile high-voltage transmission line between Castle Rock and Troutdale, Ore.
The preferred route runs mostly through Weyerhaeuser and state-owned timberlands.
The Daily News reports (http://is.gd/dQIZRW ) some landowners wanted the power line to run through more remote areas farther east.
The public can comment on the preferred route and three other options listed in an impact study released Tuesday. Six meetings are planned before the end of the year. The first will be Dec. 4 at Castle Rock Elementary School.
The BPA plans to make a decision on the $459 million project by the end of 2014. The agency hopes the 500-kilovolt line will be operating by 2018 to help meet the demand for electricity in the region.
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The bottom line: The federal government has extended the small business credit.
OTTAWA — The federal government has renewed its tax break for small businesses to help add staff, and is offering more incentives for job creation by other companies and organizations.
In its 2012 budget, the government extends its Hiring Credit for Small Business program, saying it will invest $205 million in the coming year to encourage hiring.
Under the program, introduced in last year's budget, a small-business employer can receive a credit of up to $1,000 to offset the increase from the previous year in its employment insurance premiums.
"This credit provided needed relief to small businesses by helping them defray the costs of hiring new workers and allowing them to take advantage of emerging economic opportunities," the government says in its budget document.
"The temporary credit is available to approximately 536,000 employers, whose total EI premiums were at or below $10,000 in 2011, reducing small business 2012 payroll cost by $205 million."
The program would kick in regardless of the number of people employed by a small business. And while the credit is not dependent on an employer hiring additional staff, the government says its aim is to free up money to encourage hiring.
"It's a nice win for small and medium enterprises . . . but a small one," said Elio Luongo, managing partner at KPMG.
However, Luongo added that, at $1,000 per employer, the credit is unlikely to result in many new positions.
Thursday's budget also includes:
• An additional $50 million over two years to the Youth Employment Strategy, which is aimed at helping young people gain work experience and learn skills;
• Investing $30 million over three years to improve job opportunities to Canadians with disabilities;
• Providing $275 million over three years to support First Nations education, as well as build and renovate schools on reserves;
• $50 million over two years to extend the so-called ThirdQuarter project, a federal-provincial-territorial program for older workers in communities with populations of less than 250,000.


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Dr. Phil takes on controversial issues that could affect your child's safety at school. How do you feel about teachers carrying guns? And, should the legal drinking age be lowered to 18?
A small Texas school district has a new policy that allows teachers to carry a concealed weapon to protect their classrooms. Dr. Phil talks with two mothers on opposite sides of this issue, as well as the president of the Texas Federation of Teachers.
Will this make students safer, or are guns in classrooms a deadly mix?
Recent studies show that 40 percent of children have experimented with alcohol by eighth grade, and almost half of college-aged kids binge drink. Now, 100 of the nation's top college presidents have signed the Amethyst Initiative, calling for a national discussion on the legal drinking age.
Would lowering the legal drinking age to 18 curb binge drinking?
Samantha, 15, has been expelled from school and is facing charges of disorderly conduct after getting into a fight with her bus driver. Samantha's mother, Paula, is furious her daughter is the only one being prosecuted in this incident.
See the fight caught on tape. Who's at fault: the student or the bus driver?
Dr. Phil gives special thanks to Robert B. Snyder, who gave a lavish donation to the Dr. Phil Foundation to help disadvantaged children.
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NEW BEDFORD — Lucille O. Merkman, 54, of New Bedford, died unexpectedly at home on Friday May 30, 2014.
NEW BEDFORD — Lucille O. Merkman, 54, of New Bedford, died unexpectedly at home on Friday May 30, 2014.
Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Howard F. and Montine (Powell) Merkman, she lived in New Bedford all of her life. She was a member of the Bethel A.M.E. Church.
Lucille was employed as a clerk in the business office of the Fall River Public School Department.
She was a graduate of New Bedford High School and the College of Charleston.
She was a member of the Susan A. Sullivou Temple 94, the Y.W.C.A., the N.A.A.C.P., and the New Bedford Historical Society.
She enjoyed traveling, going to Foxwoods, and spending time with her granddaughters.
She is survived by three children, Nakia Merkman and her boyfriend Jason Turner, Jordan Merkman and his girlfriend Jessica Bento, and Joshua Merkman, all of New Bedford; her siblings, Seymour Merkman of New Bedford, Ronald Merkman of East Freetown, Arthur Merkman of Connecticut, Annette Grant of South Carolina, and Connie DeBarros of Falmouth; four granddaughters, Kyla Lopes, Deja Lopes, Janiya Turner, and Anelise Merkman; her aunt, Lucille Goodine of New Bedford; and many nieces and nephews.
Her Funeral Service will be held on Friday at 11 AM at the Saunders-Dwyer Home for Funerals, 495 Park St., New Bedford, with visiting hours on Friday morning from 9-11 AM prior to the service. Burial will be in Rural Cemetery.
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Catherine Gale was raised in a family of musicians and has been singing since the age of three. She attended Oberlin College, and completed her Bachelor of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music. In 2008 she moved to Ithaca, NY. In 2010 she joined the Ithaca College Faculty, teaching jazz voice and directing the Jazz Vocal Ensemble.
She has sung with many groups in Central New York, including the Ithaca Jazz Quartet, the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, and Walter White's "Small Medium @ Large." For more than 15 years, she performed as a freelance singer in and around New York City, singing with a variety of groups including The Warren Vache Quintet, The Peter Deutchen Orchestra, Manhattan Sound, The Bronx Arts Ensemble and The Swing Mavens.
Though much of her work is as a featured singer, Ms Gale has always been a fan of, and a performer in jazz vocal groups. She toured extensively with Swing Fever, and over the years has been a member of such groups as The Swing Syndicate, Lance Hayward Singers, New Voice of Hope, & Sharp Five. In addition to performing, Ms. Gale was on the faculty of New York University as a professor of jazz voice from 1998 to 2008.
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Herd Hot Stove: Mets ink Adams, NT product
Russ Adams, 30, spent the entire 2010 season with the Bisons, his first season in Buffalo. The veteran hit .264 (101-383) with a career-high 16 home runs and 58RBI in 108 games with the Herd. He also finished 1st on the team with 28 doubles and 46 extra-base hits and tied for the team-lead with 58RBI.
The New York Mets selected North Tonawanda product RHP Ricky Brooks in the Triple-A phase of the 2010 Rule V Draft. A graduate from North Tonawanda High School in 2003, he was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the third round of the 2005 draft.
Brooks was a three-year player for the North Tonawanda Lumberjacks. The pitcher posted a 16-4 record and was named Western New York Player of the Year as the Lumberjack's senior captain in 2003. During the 2002-2003 scholastic year, Brooks helped NT to Section VI titles in football, hockey and baseball.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
For many people, the ritual of Black Friday rising early on the day after Thanksgiving to track down Christmas sale bargains is a tradition as honored as eating turkey and watching football the day before.
But what's usually marked as the start of the holiday shopping season is starting to fade in importance, as businesses aren't waiting for Thanksgiving to start the Christmas marketing blitz.
"We've always kicked off our holiday shopping the week before Thanksgiving," said McKell Law, marketing director for The Shops at Riverwoods, a Provo shopping center that's been getting an early start on the season since it opened in 1998.
This year, though, The Shops are not alone. In downtown Salt Lake City, City Creek Center started its first Christmas season on Nov. 15, a full week before Thanksgiving, with Santa Claus and the return of the candy windows to the Macy's (formerly ZCMI) storefront. Meanwhile, City Creek's competition to the west, The Gateway, launched the season on Nov. 17, with musician Kurt Bestor and the introduction of a light show synchronized to the Olympic Legacy Fountain.
"Black Friday gets so crazy," Law said, adding that the early opening is better suited for the Riverwoods' family-friendly environment.
Nationally, the big-box stores are jumping the gun on Black Friday, too and not just by tossing out the Halloween leftovers and stocking the seasonal aisles with Christmas stuff on Nov. 1.
Walmart, Target, ShopKo, Sears and Kmart all scheduled "Black Thursday" sales on the evening of Thanksgiving, while many people still will be in a post-turkey coma. But that's not alleviating the Black Friday madness so much as rescheduling it a few hours earlier.
Some shoppers "are almost scared of Black Friday," said Kyle Aldous, marketing director of Blickenstaff's, a toy-and-candy store at Riverwoods and, for the first time this year, The Gateway.
Blickenstaff's offers an alternative: It gives tickets to customers to let them in the store before and after normal hours the week of Thanksgiving, giving them access to the store's Black Friday prices a few days early.
"We wanted to do something for the customers and make them feel like they can get the Black Friday deals and not get involved in the chaos," Aldous said.
It's not just retailers who have to decide when to start celebrating Christmas.
Salt Lake City radio station KOSY 106.5 FM was the first in the market to start playing wall-to-wall Christmas music. The station launched on Nov. 2, more than a week ahead of rival KSFI, known as FM 100.
"The emails and calls start, honestly, in mid-October: 'When are you going to switch to Christmas music?' " said Jeff Cochran, KOSY's operations manager, adding that some listeners have told him they stay up 'til midnight on Halloween in hopes they'll go from "Monster Mash" to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" in an instant.
The feeling isn't unanimous. "There are people who love it, and some who hate it," Cochran said. "Those that don't like it, it's funny how mean-spirited some of the notes are."
But there's money to be made in the holiday spirit. Cochran reports that KOSY's ratings more than double in November and December. "It just explodes," he said.
Likewise, Aldous said toy stores like Blickenstaff's rely heavily on the Christmas season. "Literally everyone [among toy retailers] runs negative, runs in the red all year until the last six weeks of the year," he said.
But "the most wonderful time of the year," as Andy Williams, may he rest in peace, sang, has its limits.
"It's the risk you run [starting too early]. A lot of people don't want to think about [Christmas] until after Thanksgiving," Aldous said. "You want to wait until you get through this holiday, and then think about the next one."
At KOSY, the start date for Christmas carols wavers a bit, but there is one firm line: Nov. 1.
"I can't see us playing Christmas music on Halloween," Cochran said.
There's also a firm end date: Dec. 26, Boxing Day. By then, Cochran said, people are ready to be done with Christmas. "Every Christmas song or at least most of them is about anticipation," he said. (He's right: After all, It's "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," not "Santa Claus Has Just Been to Town.")
If you are feeling the added pressure of an extended holiday season either by the extra days of Christmas merchandise on the shelves, or the guilt trip that your purchases will somehow rescue the economy take heart in one signature event that's free and doesn't happen until after Thanksgiving: The lights at Temple Square will be switched on Friday, Nov. 23, around dusk.
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2016 Camaro Z28 is a sports car that will be launched in 2016. Chevrolet is one of the popular automotive company create cars that have high specifications. New Camaro Z28 to come will provide few surprises to draw attention to a lot of people. Camaro Z28 will offer the latest designs that are more sporty character who becomes a sports car. We will discuss the features and specification engine 2016 Camaro Z28.
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2016 Camaro Z28 is rumored to be given a touch of and improvement on the look out. 2016 Camaro Z28 exterior design will apply the line which became the character of the Chevy Camaro. The all New Camaro Z28 will use high-quality ingredients to provide a good aerodynamic effects and impressive performance. Camaro Z28 will use the latest rear spoiler is placed on the back. As for the interior design of the 2016 Camaro Z28 according to information circulated will look more elegant and modern. The changes occurred at the Chair cover dashboard be more slim and neatly to enhance the value of comfort and entertainment. may be placed in the car. New Camaro Z28 is rumored to be given a new feature in the cabin.
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2016 Camaro Z28 is rumored to be offering a machine that has a strong and energetic performance. But so far have not provided information on the Chevrolet official about the specifics of the machine will be brought up-to-date Z28 Camaro. The 2015 Camaro Z28 Edition V8 7.0 litre that can generate power 505 horsepower. We hope the new Camaro Z28 will provide improvements in the drivetrain to deliver a driving experience that is different from the current model.
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2016 Camaro Z28 is a sports car that will offer a different driving experience. Information release date 2016 Camaro Z28 has yet to be confirmed, but according to rumors circulating will release next year. For the Z28 Camaro 2016 pricing information has not been predictable. We are waiting for official information about the specifics of the Chevrolet Camaro Z28 from 2016.


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The Chicago Weekly has a lengthy and moving obituary of artist Margaret Taylor Burroughs, who died on November 21st at her Bronzeville home. Burroughs was co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History and also helped found the South Side Community Arts Center.
The DuSable Museum will celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Margaret Burroughs this Saturday, December 11, 2010 from 10:00am until 5:00pm. The day's events will include filmed interviews about Margaret Burroughs, a symposium on her life, children's workshops, musical and spoken word performances, and exhibition tours.Admission to the event is free; please R.S.V.P. at (773) 947-0600 ext. 627.
A brief excerpt from the Chicago Weekly piece on Dr. Burroughs follows:
In 1940, at age 23, Burroughs became the youngest founder of the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC). During the Depression, with money from the Work Projects Administration, a coalition of Bronzeville community members sought to turn a former railroad men's club into a public art center. The 3831 South Michigan address was across the street from the coach house she and Goss were renting, and the couple quickly became leaders in the effort. Burroughs, her husband, and other artists including Fred Jones, Charles White, and Archibald Motley Jr. worked with local businessmen to raise the money necessary to purchase the property and organize the renovation.
In 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt inaugurated the center at a ceremony broadcast on national radio. Burroughs addressed the crowd. "Now, in this critical wartime period, we have our own plan for defense; a plan in the defense of culture. The opportunities which we have now, in the coming of the art center, we did not have before. This quickens our determination to see it that this art center, the first of it's kind on the South Side, and one of the few in the country shall stand and flourish.â€
The SSCAC made Bronzeville a mecca for black artists in Chicago. Even after federal money ceased in the early '40s, the center sustained itself, sometimes barely, through the support of patrons. Burroughs said of the energy that went into the center, "We believed that the purpose of art was to record the times. As young black artists, we looked around and recorded in our various media what we saw. It was not from our imagination that we painted slums and ghettos, or sad, hollow-eyed black men, women and children. They were the people around us. We were part of them. They were us.†Today the SSCAC is in its 70th year, and is the only remaining arts facility from the WPA days.
Burroughs attended the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1946 and a Masters in art education in 1948. In her studies she came across the Taller de Gráfica Popular. The Mexican muralists' use of social commentary inspired her work. In 1953, Burroughs travelled to Mexico City to study printmaking and art under Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent printmaker of the Diego Rivera circle. The influence of Mexican muralists helped her to develop the distinctive style she used in her iconic white-on-black prints of African and American history. The social aims of the Mexican muralists also had an impact on her philosophy of art; throughout her life, Burroughs made art about a world she shared with others. (Read more at The Chicago Weekly).
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My brain is full of a lot of nothing today. I don't really mind. Schoolwork is on the light side this week, and I'm enjoying a break from repeating a list of what I have to do in my head. Over and over and over.
Online quiz. Groceries. Computer certification. Watch lecture. Do laundry. Gym. Try to get to bed at a decent hour. Call mom. Don't spend two hours aimlessly clicking around Facebook.
I'll pay the price for this quiet week next week. And the week after. And then no classes for the week of Thanksgiving. Then, two weeks of hell and I'm through. Hurrah? Oh, yes. Hurrah.
Did I mention that I'm running a 5K with my sister on Thanksgiving morning? It seemed like an amazing idea when we registered at the end of September. Before it was bitterly cold. Now we spend amazing amounts of time, effort and energy attempting to figure out what we will wear to ensure that we're both warm and mobile on race day.
Knowing Michigan, it will end up being 55 degrees.
Predictably unpredictable. That's how we roll here in the D.
I voted absentee. I am enjoying laughing at all of my coworkers who are gearing up to get in line at 6:00 tonight. So far, I have managed to skillfully avoid any political chatter. I can be rather passionate in some of my opinions. That can of worms? Better to be left unopened. Discussion of one statewide ballot proposal in particular, Proposal 2, could easily bring me to tears.
My hair may finally be out of The Awkward Length of Horrible that it feels like it has been in for the last few weeks. I'm not doing anything different – it has just decided to start behaving. Or has grown to the proper length to properly weigh down my hair so that I no longer look like the Whirling Dervish of Crazy.
Someone on my soccer team up and joined another team in our league. Claimed she didn't know we were playing this session. Whatev. Pisses me off.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A jury has been empaneled and opening statements will be presented Tuesday in the trial of a man accused of shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy in September 2010.
If convicted, Jeremiah Corbett could face the death penalty in the death of Horace James outside Club Menage at 1220 University Blvd.
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Two teenage girls were also wounded in the shooting.
James and the girls were not the intended targets. James died at a hospital.
Hundreds of documents in the case show it all started as a dispute between two teenage girls and an ex-boyfriend.
According to police reports, witnesses knew trouble was coming, and someone told James to run right before Corbett (pictured, right) opened the side door of an SUV and started shooting.
When rescuers arrived, they found two teenage girls suffering from minor gunshot wounds and James unresponsive.
All of them were leaving a birthday party at a club called Menage.


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There were rumors that Bravo might pull "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" entirely following the recent suicide death of Russell Armstrong, the estranged husband of "Housewives" star Taylor Armstrong.
However, Variety reports that the network intends to keep its Sept. 5th premiere date, and will instead tweak the content.
"Contrary to what is being reported, we have not made a decision to change our original premiere date but we are in the process of re-editing the show," Bravo president Frances Berwick told the magazine.
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Although Berwick did not give specifics, the re-edits are believed to be focusing on downplaying references to Russell Armstrong.
The 47 year-old was found dead Monday in a house on Mulholland Drive. It was later determined by the Los Angeles County Coroner that the cause of death was suicide by hanging.
There had been suggestions that Armstrong was anxious about the upcoming season, and that his anxiety may have contributed to his death.
Armstrong's mother, John Ann Hotchkiss, appeared on HLN and claimed her son told her, "Mom, they're just going to crucify me this season. I don't know what to do. I'll never survive it." When she asked if anything could be done to stop it, Armstrong allegedly replied, "No. All the network cares about are ratings. They don't care if people are hurt, or if it destroys their marriage."
Prior to his death, Armstrong had threatened legal action against his castmates and the show's producers if they discussed he and his wife's relationship problems.
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The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) swimming and diving championships have concluded.
* The Flying Dutchmen have won their third consecutive men's MIAA championship. It is also the 12th men's MIAA championship in school history.
* The Flying Dutch finished second in the women's MIAA championship standings.
Coach John Patnott has now guided Hope swimming/diving teams to 31 MIAA championships, 12 by the Flying Dutchmen and 19 by the Flying Dutch. He ranks second all-time among MIAA coaches in championships won. The all-time leader is George Acker who coached Kalamazoo to 35 MIAA men's tennis titles.
Final Men's Standings: 1. Hope 878, 2. Kalamazoo 853, 3. Olivet 493, 4. Calvin 428, 5. Alma 277, 6. Albion 195.
Final Women's Standings: 1. Calvin 939, 2. Hope 715, 3. Kalamazoo 442, 4. Albion 374, 5. Olivet 289, 6. Alma 262, 7. Saint Mary's 241.
* Junior Sarah Sohn of Arlington Heights, Ill. (Prospect HS) won her third gold medal of the championships capturing the marathon 1,650 freestyle in 17:33.09. She was the defending champion in the event. She earlier took first in the 500 free and 400 IM.
* The Flying Dutchmen gained 32 points over Kalamazoo in the race for the men's title by taking the first four places in the marathon 1,650 freestyle. Freshman Josh Grabijas of Howell (Howell) took the gold, his second of the meet, in 16:01.73. He was followed by teammates Jeff Shade of Davison (Davison HS), 16:08.06; James Richardson of Mount Vernon, Ohio (Mount Vernon HS), 16:09.30; and Andrew Rose of Holland (Grandville HS), 16:23.73. Shade the defending MIAA champion in the event. Grabijas, Shade and Richardson all had NCAA consideration times.
* Teammates Libby Westrate (Grandville/Grandville HS) and Christina Vogelzang (Holland/Holland Christian HS) finished one-two in the 100 freestyle. Westrate, a freshman, earlier won the 200 free. Her 100 time (:52.77) was an NCAA consideration time.
* Sophomore Sarah Sohn of Arlington Heights, Ill. (Prospect HS) won her second gold medal of the meet capturing the 400 IM (4:38.58). In the prelims she had a season-best time of 4:37.97. Her time is an NCAA championships consideration performance. Teammate Chelsea Wiese, a sophomore from Rochester (Rochester Adams HS) finished in second place at 4:41.20. Sohn earlier won the 500-yard freestyle.
* Senior Phil Heyboer of Zeeland (Holland Christian HS) won the 400 IM for a fourth consecutive year with an MIAA record time of 4:00.24. The old mark, set by Heyboer in 2008, was 4:03.55. Heyboer has qualified for the NCAA championships next month with an earlier time of 3:59.31. Teammate Jeff Shade, a sophomore from Davison (Davison HS) finished second in 4:08.85.
* Freshman Libby Westrate of Grandville (Grandville HS) captured the gold medal in the 200 freestyle with an NCAA consideration time of 1:55.22.
* The men's 200 freestyle epitomized the title race going on between Hope and Kalamazoo. Seven of the eight swimmers in the finals were from the two schools. While Kalamazoo took first, second and third place, Hope ended fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth to leave the Hornets with a slim 53-52 point advantage.
* In the men's 100 butterfly, Kalamazoo's Paul Ellis denied Hope's Ryan Nelis (senior from Holland/West Ottawa HS) a fourth straight MIAA championship, defeating Nelis by .46 seconds (:49.81/:50.27)
* Freshman Laura Cameron of Ann Arbor (Pioneer HS) and senior Mitch Ruch of Zeeland (Zeeland West HS) had NCAA consideration times as each finished second in the 100-yard backstroke.
* The Flying Dutch concluded Friday's competition by winning the 800-yard freestyle relay. The team of Sarah Sohn, senior Claire Piester of Columbia, Mo. (Hickman HS), Libby Westrate and senior Christina Vogelzang had an NCAA consideration time of 7:47.40.
* Hope swimmers won the gold medal in both the men's and women's 500 freestyle. Both sophomore Sarah Sohn of Arlington Heights, Ill. (Prospect HS) and freshman Josh Grabijas of Howell (Howell) had season-best and NCAA consideration times of 5:07.20 and 4:35.47 respectively.
* The Flying Dutchmen took the top five places in the 500 free led by Josh Grabijas (4:35.47), senior Phil Heyboer of Zeeland (Holland Christian), 4:36.81); sophomore Andrew Rose of Holland (Grandville HS), 4:39.54); senior James Richardson of Mt. Vernon, Ohio (Mt. Vernon HS), 4:39.87); and sophomore Jeffrey Shade of Davison (Davison HS), 4:41.07). The sweep gave the Flying Dutchmen 82 points toward their Thursday total.
* The Flying Dutchmen had one of their best performances in recent years in diving with three finalists on the one-meter board led by freshman Ray Gaskell of Oscoda (Oscoda HS) who was third. Teammates Matt Ray, a senior from Holland (Holland HS), and Thomas Knecht, a sophomore from Grand Rapids (GR Christian HS), were sixth and eighth respectively.
* NCAA consideration times were recorded by senior Aaron Welsch of St. Peters, Mo. (Ft. Zumwalt South HS) in the 50 free (:20.87), freshman Libby Westrate of Grandville (Grandville HS), 50 free (:23.93); senior Ryan Nelis of Holland (West Ottawa HS) in the 200 IM (1:54.38); senior Phil Heyboer in the 500 free (4:36.81) and the women's 400 medley relay (3:58.46).


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METRO VANCOUVER -- The European fire ants that were the bane of gardeners across Metro Vancouver last summer have returned with a vengeance, and another type of imported ant has made its Canadian debut.
The Argentine ant first appeared in B.C. last fall, and has the dubious distinction of being one of the 100 worst invasive species on the planet, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
It developed as a pest in California and has travelled as far north as Oregon and Washington, and in November a pest control worker in Victoria noticed a column of ants moving across a road in a band as thick as a man's arm. The Argentine ant is known to form "supercolonies" where a million of the insects can live in 10 square metres of soil.
Ant expert Robert Higgins, an entomologist at Thompson Rivers University, confirmed the species this year and says the ants are being transported on gardening material, plants and soil.
Although the Argentine ants do not sting or bite, they can overwhelm gardens and have destroyed crops in California. One Victoria woman found her car, which was parked under a tree with honeydew-producing aphids, blanketed in the ants. They can take over picnics, patios and kitchens in their quest for sugar and food.
"It's a tiny ant but their numbers are huge," Higgins said.
European fire ants, on the other hand, do sting, causing painful welts and swelling, even requiring medical attention or veterinary care. Gardeners must tape rubber boots to their pant legs and kids must be kept off the lawn. Even horses and birds can be impacted.
Multiple queens in every nest means it can be difficult if not impossible to eradicate the ants completely and they easily travel from yard to yard, sometimes spreading over multiple city blocks.
Provincial biologists first became aware of fire ants in 2010, but a new report prepared by Higgins for the B.C. Inter-Ministry Invasive Species Working Group says the pests may have been in the province for 15 years.
The number of reported cases has "more than doubled," since last year to include parks, backyards and gardens in Vancouver including the University of B.C. endowment lands, an equestrian park and a botanical garden, North Vancouver, Victoria, Burnaby, Chilliwack, Richmond, Maple Ridge and Courtenay, Higgins said.
The fire ants love temperate weather, and there's potential for them to spread all along coastal B.C.
"I don't think we — by any means — have found all of the colonies," Higgins said. "There are little pockets scattered all over the place."
One of those places is McDonald Beach Park in Richmond, which also has a popular dog park. Higgins said dogs were showing up at the vet and misdiagnosed with infections that were actually welts from fire ant stings.
That area is now marked, said Higgins, who is pushing municipalities to require warning signs in identified locations.
"The public needs to know where they are located," he said.
The fire ant is likely arriving "through landscaping plants and the movement of contaminated soil. This argues for increased education to all affected stakeholders, including the landscaping industry," the report states.
"Community gardeners may merit particular interest given the ideal habitat that well irrigated raised garden beds present to the (fire ant). The frequency with which gardeners share and move plants with soil make community gardens a high risk secondary source for further distributing this ant."
With early detection, the nests can sometimes be destroyed, preventing a widespread problem. But the ants become more aggressive as the colonies grow larger and may go unnoticed at first. Commercial pesticides do not work and a common treatment, boric acid, is not 100 per cent effective and high concentrations can be dangerous for small animals and soil health.
The Invasive Species Council of B.C. said garden materials are "the suspected route" for the fire ants. (The B.C. Landscape and Nursery Association is not convinced.)
And because the ants can affect property values, the council applied for and received funding from the Real Estate Foundation of B.C. to create a fire ant advisory council to look at how municipalities can deal with legalities and liability, said executive director Gail Wallin.
Meanwhile, the Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver is dealing with a major backlog as crews try to address a "weed emergency" created by the toxic and dangerous giant hogweed plant, the sap of which can cause third-degree burns and even blindness, said project manager Jennifer Grenz. She once suffered minor burns just from standing in front of the tall bush with white flowers on a windy day.
Similar to the fire ant, media attention has produced an overwhelming number of reports across the Lower Mainland. Last summer about 50 areas were treated. The council expects to treat 150 more sites this year, many along walking trails and in public parks.
In east Vancouver's Charles Park, a large area is cordoned off until it can be treated next week. The perennial was mowed under, lacing the lawn with seeds and sap, presenting a major risk to public health.
"It's not just an ecological concern. It's a safety concern," she said.


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Cisco's Patent Counterattack Fails
A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed legal claims filed by Cisco Systems Inc. against a licensing company, in a decision that dims the network-equipment maker's hopes of turning the table on so-called patent trolls.
In a ruling issued late Monday, U.S. District Judge James F. Holderman held that the aggressive licensing strategy used by Innovatio IP Ventures LLC against Cisco customers is protected by the U.S. Constitution. Companies such as Innovatio, more formally known as patent-assertion entities, buy up patents and seek to earn money from them through licensing and litigation.